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Synonyms
Bitter
lettuce, Opium lettuce, Acid lettuce, Wild lettuce, Strong smell lettuce.
Constituents
Biennial
plant. Height 1 meter. Leaves contain latex, opium like
alkaloids, lactucopicrin, lactucin, lactucarium, coumarin, and potassium
nitrate. Bitter.
Therapeutics
This is medicine
for pain, and sleeplessness.
It is an
antiseptic medicine.
It is medicine
for agalactia.
It is
remedy for excessive sleepiness, and disturbed sleep.
It is remedy
for spasmodic cough.
It is remedy
for Parkinson's disease.
It is remedy
for tightness in chest, with loose stool and dilated pupils.
It is
remedy for ovarian enlargement with sense of tightness at lower abdomen.
It is remedy
for intermittent fever.
It has been
used to prepare nicotine free cigarette.
Dose
1 to 10
drops.
Dilution.
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